Preface | p. vii |
Harnessing the Power of Your Calculator | p. 1 |
Ten-Dollar Calculators That Work | p. 1 |
The First Five Buttons-The Basic Operations | p. 2 |
Rounding Off and Significant Figures | p. 5 |
What Are the Rules for Significant Figures? | p. 5 |
Exponential Notation to the Rescue | p. 7 |
Rules for Rounding Off | p. 8 |
Significant Figures in Multiplication and Division | p. 8 |
[EXP]: Exponential Notation on the Calculator | p. 9 |
Multiplication and Division with Exponential Notation | p. 11 |
Switching between Exponential and Decimal | p. 12 |
Does the Answer Make Sense? | p. 18 |
Practice Problems | p. 20 |
Answers to Practice Problems | p. 21 |
Skills for Chapter 1: Scientific Measurements | p. 22 |
Significant Digits | p. 22 |
Exponential Notation | p. 23 |
Mean and Standard Deviation | p. 25 |
Skills for Chapters 4 and 5: Chemical Reactions in Aqueous Solutions | p. 26 |
Molarity | p. 26 |
Dilution | p. 28 |
Yields | p. 29 |
Titrations | p. 30 |
Skills for Chapter 6: Gases | p. 33 |
Gas Laws | p. 33 |
Dalton's Law | p. 36 |
Graham's Law | p. 37 |
Skills for Chapter 7: Thermochemistry | p. 39 |
Calorimetry | p. 39 |
Standard Enthalpy of Reaction | p. 41 |
Skills for Chapter 8: Electrons in Atoms | p. 42 |
Radiant Energy | p. 42 |
Balmer Equation | p. 43 |
Wavelike Properties of Matter | p. 44 |
Skills for Chapter 10: Chemical Bonding I | p. 46 |
Skills for Chapter 12: Intermolecular Forces | p. 47 |
Using the Ideal Gas Law | p. 47 |
Clausius-Clapeyron Equation | p. 48 |
Skills for Chapter 13: Solutions and Their Physical Properties | p. 50 |
Concentration Units | p. 50 |
Colligative Properties | p. 51 |
Skills for Chapter 14: Chemical Kinetics | p. 52 |
Reaction Rates | p. 52 |
Concentration and Time | p. 54 |
Reaction Rates and Temperatures | p. 58 |
Skills for Chapter 15: Principles of Chemical Equilibrium | p. 60 |
Calculations with Equilibrium Expressions | p. 60 |
Calculation of Equilibrium Concentrations | p. 62 |
Skills for Chapter 16: Acids and Bases | p. 68 |
pH Calculations | p. 68 |
Equilibrium Calculations | p. 71 |
Skills for Chapter 17: Additional Aspects of Acid-Base Equilibria | p. 75 |
Common Ion Effect | p. 75 |
Buffers | p. 78 |
Titrations | p. 82 |
Skills for Chapter 18: Solubility and Complex-Ion Equilbria | p. 84 |
Solubility | p. 84 |
Effect of Common Ions and pH | p. 87 |
Complex Ions | p. 87 |
Skills for Chapter 19: Spontaneous Change, Entropy, Gibbs Energy | p. 97 |
Enthalpy and Entropy Changes | p. 91 |
Standard Energy Change | p. 91 |
Energy And Equilibrium | p. 92 |
Skills for Chapter 20: Electrochemistry | p. 95 |
emf, K, and the Nernst Equation | p. 95 |
Electrolysis | p. 99 |
Skills for Chapter 25: Nuclear Chemistry | p. 100 |
Self Test for Math Skills | p. 102 |
Chemistry and Writing | p. 106 |
The Scientific Notebook | p. 106 |
The Scientific Report | p. 108 |
Technical Writing | p. 110 |
A Notebook Example | p. 113 |
Study Aids for Chemistry | p. 118 |
Good Study Habits | p. 119 |
Reading Your Textbook | p. 120 |
Learning to Relax | p. 122 |
Conquering Tests | p. 124 |
Answers for Self Test for Math Skills | p. 129 |
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